Cooperation in mutually beneficial areas in the Arctic would become a new promising area of cooperation between Russia and South Korea

SEOUL, February 09, 7:44 /ITAR-TASS/. The Foreign Ministries of Russia and South Korea have held their first consultations to discuss the possibility and ways of promoting cooperation in the Arctic, Anton Vasilyev, Russia’s Ambassador at Large for Arctic cooperation at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

Vasilyev said that consultations would develop the agreements which the Russian and South Korean presidents had reached during the summit in Seoul last November and noted that cooperation in mutually beneficial areas in the Arctic would become a new promising area of cooperation between Russia and South Korea.